Research Scientist — AI for Drug Discovery

Chai Discovery Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Chai Discovery Inc. in San Francisco is seeking research scientists to improve the real-world performance of our foundation models.

You will plan targeted data generation campaigns, design evals that accurately measure model performance, and formulate post-training recipes to tackle real drug discovery problems. We value researchers who can formalize messy biological problems using methods from other fields, and you will work in tight loops with pre-training researchers, research engineers and

Formación

• Published research in machine learning for protein, antibody, or small-molecule modelling.
• Fluency in the technical details of protein language, structure prediction, and design models (AlphaFold, RFDiffusion, ProteinMPNN, ESM, etc).
• Strong quantitative background (CS, math, or physics).
• Deep software engineering expertise, with experience working in large codebases.

Responsabilidades

• Plan targeted data generation campaigns for real-world model evaluation.
• Design evals that accurately measure model performance for drug discovery problems.
• Formulate post-training recipes to improve model usefulness in practical applications.
• Collaborate closely with pre-training researchers, research engineers and science teams to ship results.

Conocimientos

ML research

Protein modelling

Quantitative background

Software engineering

Descripción del empleo

Chai Discovery Inc. in San Francisco is seeking research scientists to improve the real-world performance of our foundation models.

You will plan targeted data generation campaigns, design evals that accurately measure model performance, and formulate post-training recipes to tackle real drug discovery problems. We value researchers who can formalize messy biological problems using methods from other fields, and you will work in tight loops with pre-training researchers, research engineers and